Welcome to this mid-June edition of the Five Minute Friday link-up!
This week’s FMF writing prompt is: PANIC
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
We’re having a graduation open house for my son this weekend, and I have officially entered “panic mode.”
I learned from an out-of-state friend that this is apparently not a common practice where she’s from, but here in the Midwest, when a student graduates from high school, their family will often host an “open house” and invite a ton of people. They serve food and people bring cards and sometimes money for the graduates and we all celebrate the occasion together.
But the thing is, most people don’t RSVP to a graduation open house.
We may have invited over 375 people, but I have NO idea how many will actually show up.
Hence the panic mode.
84 people told me they’re coming and 34 said they can’t come . . . and that’s all I know, folks. Ha! This should be fun. 😉
Apparently the anxiety has seeped into my subconscious, as I’ve had not one, not two, but *three* dreams in the past week that something went wrong.
In the most recent dream, I completely forgot to do my Five Minute Friday post and didn’t realize it until a full five days later. Ha! Since I actually remembered to show up, I guess that means that dream didn’t come true (thankfully!).
At the end of the day, I’m sure everything is going to turn out just fine. And if it doesn’t, at least we’ll have a story to tell.
In the meantime, I keep preaching to myself: “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” (Matthew 6:27)
STOP.
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Join us with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, PANIC, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:
I’m not depressed or manic,
I just do what I can,
but but my calm makes people panic
for I am a Buddhist man
who writes about the Christian life
with enthusiastic verve.
They think it’s schizophrenic strife
and that I have some nerve
in crossing spiritual lines
(Is he in it for the money?
Is it all just monkeyshines?),
but to me it’s kinda funny,
’cause Buddha taught a way of living,
while Christ defines Love to be giving.
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Buddhism really isn’t a religion; it’s life-practice. Gautama Buddha himself, when asked by a Hindu (he lived in a Hindu culture) how one became a good Buddhist, said “Be the most faithful Hindu you can be.”
The Open House sounds fabulous! Thursday night I logged in a little after 7 and kept refreshing both phone and computer browsers until about 10 and never saw a FMF pust, so I assumed you were busy with graduation celebrations. However, apparently you did post. I may have time to play come Monday. Congratulations to your son!